Our Black Gay Diaspora Podcast™

Dakarai Larriett is an Alabama U.S. Senate candidate and the founder of Gerrard Larriett Aromatherapy Pet. With over 20 years of experience in team management across diverse industries, Larriett is the son of a U.S. Army veteran, a successful entrepreneur, and a longtime community volunteer. He is the author of DON’T FLUSH!: From a False Arrest to a Political Awakening: My Journey to Making a Difference (2025). It recounts the night in April 2024, when he was wrongfully arrested in Michigan for suspected DUI.Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bennu Byrd is an American hip-hop artist and songwriter whose signature Millennial Soul sound innovates hip-hop by fusing it with electronic dance music and Go-Go style instrumentation. Known for its high-energy, percussion-heavy sound and call-and-response elements, Go-Go is a funk-based music genre that originated in Washington, D.C. Byrd's song Fearless was the 2023 official anthem for the Washington Mystics basketball team. 2025's All In was the anthem for the Las Vegas Aces basketball team.Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

David Roussève is an American choreographer, writer, director, and filmmaker. His most recent work is titled Becoming Daddy AF, his first solo project in over 20 years. With a career spanning over four decades, Roussève has written, directed, and choreographed 14 full evening works for David Roussève/REALITY. These include three commissions for the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Halfway to Dawn. Halfway to Dawn explores the life and music of Black gay jazz composer Billy Strayhorn. Roussève's commissions for other companies include Ballet Hispanico, Dancing Wheels, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Theater, and the Atlanta Ballet.Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Eric Gyamfi is a Ghanaian photographer whose exhibitions have been shown in Ghana, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Austria, Germany, the United States, and other locations. Gyamfi’s work has been featured in A Diagnosis of Time: Unlearn What You Have Learned, a collaborative effort of Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art (Ghana), ARoS Art Museum (Denmark), and in Ecologies and Politics of the Living in Vienna, Austria.Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Benjamin Coy is an American digital creator and media personality. I met Benjamin during a 2025 family visit to Maryland. And I can attest that their on-camera vivaciousness goes beyond the screen. Benjamin is also the co-host of the Cocktails & Culture Podcast. They are a Black queer creative who uses their talents, personality, and interests to celebrate and uplift the community.Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lloyd Young is an independent sexual violence advocate and the founder of BlackExperienceUK, a British organisation that is “a community of Black gay, trans men, bisexual men or questioning, creating safe spaces and networking opportunities for members.”Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Keith Jarrett is a British poet, author, performer, and educator. He is the author of the poetry collection Selah, the play Safest Spot in Town, and the poetry pamphlet I Speak Home. Keith is a UK Poetry Slam Champion and FLUPP International Poetry Slam Winner. His work explores themes of identity, race, religion, and sexuality. Keith was also one of those featured in the Topher Campbell documentary, Moments That Shaped Queer Black Britain.Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 122's Dr. Martin Patrick, a British author, playwright, and educator, returns with 20 questions to interview Our Black Gay Diaspora Podcast's Erick Taylor Woodby. Among those listed as the National Black Justice Collective’s “2025 Cohort of 100 Black LGBTQ+/SGL Emerging Leaders to Watch,” Woodby is a Los Angeles-based American writer and podcast producer committed to building bridges across borders.Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Emil Wilbekin is an award-winning American journalist, media executive, curator, and professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. He's also the founder of NATIVE SON, “a movement, community, and platform of Black gay/queer men who inspire, empower, and celebrate each other.” Emil is the former editor-in-chief of Vibe and Giant and editor-at-large at Essence. While at Vibe, he helped to elevate the careers of music artists like Mary J. Blige, Maxwell, and Aaliyah.Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Diana Bamimeke is an Ireland-based Nigerian independent curator, art writer, and transdisciplinary artist based in Dublin. Their socially engaged practice spans text, exhibition-making, performance, pedagogy and other artistic interventions. Guided by critical and political frameworks—including Black feminist & queer thought, anti-colonialism, and anti-imperialism—Diana strives to understand themselves and their world. Their writing has been published by VISUAL Carlow, Visual Artists Ireland News Sheet, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Paper Visual Art, and Frieze.Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Martin Patrick is a British author, playwright, and educator. He began his professional career writing for the theatre, but found his true calling writing crime and romance novels. Dr. Patrick's literary works include JJ’s Isolation, Love Both Ways, Son of a Dish, The Labyrinth of Families, and his most recent, The Torment of Desire. With 30 years of experience in teaching creative writing in the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, the United States, and Sweden, he was an international professor in drama, film and cultural studies.Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Anastacia-Reneé is an American writer, educator, interdisciplinary artist, playwright, former radio host, and TEDx speaker. She is the author of Forget It, Sidenotes from the Archivist, and Here in the (Middle) of Nowhere. Side Notes From The Archivist was selected as one of “NYPL Best Books of 2023” and the American Library Association's (RUSA) “Notable Books of 2024.” Anastacia-Reneé is a recipient of the James W. Ray Distinguished Artist Award and was selected by NBC News as part of the list of "Queer Artist of Color Dominate 2021's Must-See LGBTQ Art Shows," for “(Don’t Be Absurd) Alice in Parts”, an installation at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, Washington.Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jay Penn is an American writer, producer, and singer. His 2024 album, Sky High Sunsets, features the songs “Euphoria (Say Yes)” and “Money”. In 2020, he released the EP, Before Then. His 2018 EP is titled Pennding. Jay is also the creator, writer, and lead in the SLAYTV web series, Love & Us. It centers around the lives of three 30-something Black gay men who navigate dating and friendship in Los Angeles.Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This special episode features Dr. Harvey Kennedy-Pitt, a British Trustee for Portfolio for Global Health & Development for ReportOUT, a UK-based global human rights organisation for sexual and gender minorities. Dr. Kennedy-Pitt is a “globally oriented health strategist and public health practitioner committed to advancing health equity on an international scale.” He’s worked with other organisations like the NHS, World Health Organisation, and Unstukk.Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chiamaka Okike is a Nigerian multidisciplinary writer who has edited for women’s issues in Isele Magazine and spoken at various workshops and panels. Her writings have appeared in The Kalahari Review, Narratively, Wilson Quarterly, Edinburgh’s Literary Salon, Brittle Paper, and ActiveMuse. Chiamake's works include Perihelion, Chewed Glass, Return of the Sun. She's also the author of the novella, Seeri.Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Steve Morris is a British LGBTQ+ Travel Curator for Outbound Adventures, an agency where he curates travel adventures for LGBTQ+ couples and small groups. Steve’s ten years of world travel as a flight attendant gave him a front-row seat to how one can relieve the stress and experience the magic of international travel. With Outbound Adventures, he offers “travel with heart and structure”.Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rodrigo Tadeu is a Brazilian international advocate, storyteller, and human rights & public policy strategist. With a background in international law and public affairs, he is a “passionate advocate for justice, equity, and transformative leadership.” Rodrigo is also a Global Campaigns Officer for ReportOUT, an organisation founded by Drew Dalton, that is “protecting the human rights of sexual and gender minorities in the United Kingdom and globally.”Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

André Wade is the State Director for Silver State Equality, Nevada’s statewide LGBTQ+ civil rights organization. André leads legislative, policy, and government affairs work, as well as fundraising, political and advocacy activities. In May 2018, he was one of The Advocate's ‘Champions of Pride’. In May 2023, André was featured in Modern Luxury Las Vegas magazine as one of the 15 Most Influential People. His book, Seven Ways to Disappear: The Book within the Book, is “a creatively insightful guide to the reinvention of the self.”Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode features "The Karamazovs," Rami Margron and Jordan McCree. Rami is an American actor, playwright, dancer and physical comedian. Their résumé includes being a founding member of Reconnect, an African-diaspora dance theater company, a resident artist at San Francisco’s Crowded Fire Theater, and acting in televisions series like Law & Order, New Amsterdam, and Ray Donovan. Jordan is an an American composer who has collaborated on projects with Clubbed Thumb, Theatre Horizon, The Wilma Theater, and the Philadelphia Theatre Company. He is also a member of the hip-hop collective, ILL DOOTS.Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Anthony Oakes is an American comedian, writer, actor, and producer who is taking comedy by storm. His clean, yet edgy, southern, intellectual, witty humour will have you reeling with laughter. He is a Washington, D.C. resident who has performed at The DC Improv, DC Drafthouse, The Bier Baron Comedy Loft, Busboys and Poets, and The Wonderland Ballroom. Anthony has also been at The Apollo, The John F. Kennedy Center, The DC Improv, The Broadway, The Westside, and The Greenwich Village Comedy Clubs in New York City, and The Laugh Factory, Comedy Store, Flappers, and The Ice House Comedy Club in Los Angeles. In 2021, he was the recipient of DC Mayor Muriel Bowser's prestigious Mayoral Arts Award for Excellence in the Performing Arts. Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mark Broomfield (PhD, MFA) is an award-winning American scholar and artist, and an Associate Professor of English and Founding Director of Performance as Social Change at SUNY Geneseo. He has written for numerous publications in the areas of race, gender, sexuality, dance performance, and ethnography, and lectured, choreographed, and directed across the United States. Broomfield's book, Black Queer Dance: Gay Men and the Politics of Passing for Almost Straight (2024), explores Black masculinity and sexual passing in American contemporary dance. As a dancer, he has performed with national and international repertory companies, such as Cleo Parker Robinson Dance in Denver, Colorado, and worked with some of the most diverse and recognised African American choreographers in the American modern dance tradition.Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Anthony Green is the American playwright of the hit plays When Boys Exhale and Gay Love Jones. When Boys Exhale is based on the 1995 film, Waiting to Exhale, and has travelled to Nashville, Atlanta, and Houston. Anthony is also the founder of Cagedbirds Productions, a Washington, D.C.-based company that “has affirmed the black, LGBT lived experience on screen and on stage.” It also produces 'The Writers Forum', an annual panel of Black LGBTQ+ writers from across the U.S. who discuss the craft, life and business of writing.Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Percy Mthombeni is a South African chef and the director at Vezabuhle Caters. Percy’s culinary skills are from his Zulu mother, and in an article on Obsidian Travel Club's site, he said, “…each dish becomes a sacred connection to roots, preserving flavours and rituals.”Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

American Rapper and Songwriter, LYRICALMAR, is a Washington, DC native whose love of luxury takes him beyond the realm of hip-hop to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with music style icons like Janet Jackson, Grace Jones, and Lil Nas X. His latest EP is called MARCHIVES, and features the songs God’s Gift (My Turn) and On A Roll. His 2020 debut album, Begin, had the single Black Money, which featured Wuhryn Duman. It earned him the PopSmashRadio Award for the socially conscious song. LYRICALMAR is part of the lineup for the 2025 World Pride Music Festival.Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

British Author and Poet Dean Atta has been described as “the Gil Scott-Heron of his generation”. In 2014, his debut collection, I Am Nobody’s Nigger, was shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize. Dean’s other literary works include his 2024 memoir, Person Unlimited: An Ode to My Black Queer Body, the young adult novels The Black Flamingo and Only on the Weekends, and the children’s book, Confetti: A Colourful Celebration of Love and Life. His latest YA novel is I Can’t Even Think Straight. Dean’s 2025 animated short, Two Black Boys in Paradise, is based on a poem and had its UK premiere this past March 2025 at the BFI Flare London: LGBTQIA+ Film Festival.Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rashid Owoyele is the Berlin-based Nigerian-American Managing Partner and Transdisciplinary Designer at Transekt Agency in Berlin. They’re also an innovation and career coach whose practice centres around “…a questioning of what exists and how to evaluate that through social practice and envisioning collaborative ways to engage communities and groups in processes of innovation.”Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Vernal Scott is a British author and consultant on EDI with over four decades of experience. Vernal was the Head of Equality & Diversity Unit at Oxford University and the Diversity and Inclusion Manager at Essex Police. In 1991, he organised the historic Reach Out and Touch HIV/AIDS Procession with Flowers—an event privately financed by George Michael and starring Whitney Houston. Vernal’s upcoming memoir, UK Black, will be published via Amazon on 16 April for the Kindle ebook and on 18 April for the paperback.Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

(Original Air Date: 20 June 2023) Our Black Gay Diaspora Podcast's creator, host, and producer Erick Taylor Woodby is interviewed by Gamal 'G' Turawa, an ED&I facilitator, transformational storyteller, and the protagonist in the 2022 BAFTA-wining documentary, The Black Cop. Erick shares about his pride in being a Black gay American writer, podcast producer, and digital nomad.Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rinaldo Walcott is a Canadian academic, writer, and a Professor and Chair of Africana and American Studies at the University of Buffalo in Buffalo, New York. He holds the Carl V. Granger Chair in Africana and American Studies. Thank you to Episode 98’s guest, Lyndon K. Gill, for connecting us. Rinaldo's published works include The Long Emancipation: Moving toward Black Freedom and On Property (2021), BlackLife: Post-BLM and the Struggle for Freedom with Idil Abdillahi (2019), Queer Returns: Essays on Multiculturalism, Diaspora and Black Studies (2016), and Black Like Who?: Writing Black Canada (1997 and 2003).Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Shelley Nicole is an American singer-songwriter, musician, composer, actor, poet, healer, and the frontperson and founder of the band, Shelley Nicole’s blaKbüshe. In a league with artists like Rosetta Tharpe, Nina Simone, Betty Davis, Labelle, Joan Armatrading, and Meshell Ndegeocello, Shelley Nicole’s blaKbüshe is equal parts rock, soul, blues, jazz, and funk. Shelley has collaborated with various artists—including Vernon Reid of the band, Living Colour and the American improvisational band, Burnt Sugar.Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tim Vincent is co-founder and president of Brothers of the Desert, “…a non-profit organization with a mission to support Black gay men and allies through education, advocacy, social networking, volunteerism, philanthropy, and mentorship.” Aigner "Anye Elite" Ellis is a member of Brothers of the Desert and the founder and chief project manager of Icon City Entertainment, LLC, a company that “…embodies a spirit of transformation and empowerment.” On March 22, 2025, Brothers of the Desert’s 6th Annual Wellness Summit will be at The Riviera Hotel in Palm Springs, CA.Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aurora Krotoa Moses is the South African founder and CEO of Aurora Kaleidoscope Movement. She’s also a Global Ambassador for Theirworld, and an alumnus of FutureElect. In 2023, she was the focus of Carl Collison’s documentary, ‘Aurora’. Her portrait was one piece featured in Cape Town-based visual artist Selvin November’s December 2023 display at Cape Heritage Hotel.Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nzube Ufodike is a British entrepreneur, investor, and advisor. Thank you to Gamal ‘G’ Turawa for connecting us. Nzube is a co-founder of Amoo Angels, a UK-based angel network. He's a board member and advisor to early and growth-stage businesses in the UK and emerging markets. Nzube is also a fundraising coach / entrepreneur-in-residence for other accelerator programmes. He's a trustee at The Africa Centre, a chair at the BCS Foundation, IoD Emerging NEDs Special Interest Group, and is on the board at Queen Mary University of London.Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Niki Lopez is an Afro-Latina interdisciplinary visual artist, curator, and social practitioner. She is the founder of What’s Your Elephant™, a “…charitable arts and educational organisation dedicated to catalysing awareness and fostering vital dialogue around under-addressed topics.” Niki is a renaissance person, doing her part to make the world more inclusive, honest, and colourful.Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brad Walrond is an American poet, author, activist, and conceptual artist. Every Where Alien is his first collection of poems published by Moore Black Press, affiliated with Amistad/HarperCollins Publishers. Brad’s poems have been published in The Atlantic, Academy of American Poets, African Voices magazine, About Place Journal, and other publications. He’s collaborated with artists like Erykah Badu and Camille A. Brown & Dancers. Brad’s first recording is the single Underneath the Metal, on the 1997 spoken word compilation album ‘Eargasms: Crucial Poetics Vol. 1’.Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lyndon K. Gill is an Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Thank you to Episode 83’s Ajamu X for connecting us. Lyndon’s interests include queer aesthetics in the African Diaspora, the erotic, LGBT art and activism in Caribbean cultures, African-based spiritual traditions in the Americas, subjectivity, and community building. In 2018, Lyndon published Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean. With a focus on the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, the book details how queer histories in the Caribbean have influenced Carnival and calypso.Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alle Eriksson is a Swedish publisher at Nypon och Vilja förlag. Alle’s credentials include owning a bookstore and publishing company and being a librarian for the city of Stockholm. They were also part of starting an LGBT+ youth space in Stockholm. In early 2024, Alle was on the Nordic Council’s Youth Literature Prize committee. It’s an award for works of fiction written in the Nordic languages of Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese. Intersectionality has been an important component throughout Alle’s professional career.Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Eric Yassine is the British-based Ivorian director of Yassine Consulting Limited. With over 10 years of experience analysing operational & financial business processes in different companies across various sectors in Europe, Africa & the Middle East, Eric’s expertise includes Internal Control Framework (COSO) & Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) implementation, documentation & testing of controls. Eric and I met in December 2022 at a Black Men’s professional networking event in London organised by Episode 23's Gamal ‘G’ Turawa.Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Topher Campbell is a British filmmaker, artist, and writer whose career spans film, theatre, education, and consultancy. Much of his work centres on sexuality, masculinity, race, human rights, and climate change. Some of Topher’s works include his 1995 film, The Homecoming: A Short Film About Ajamu. Topher and Ajamu X are the founders of rukus! Federation Limited, a Black LGBT cultural archive comprising collected diaries, letters, magazines, and other black British queer media. Topher’s other projects include 2018’s short film, FETISH, the 2022 documentary, Moments That Shaped: Queer Black Britain and his installation at London’s Tate Modern.Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

JAKE Small is an American researcher, non-profit leader, advocate, keynote speaker, DEI workshop facilitator, and poet. JAKE supports professionals at every level of seniority and companies across every industry. He’s also about advancing the education equity of Black boys in the United States. In May 2024, JAKE published his collection of poems titled FOR EVERY BLACK BOY. I didn’t just read the collection; I absorbed it. JAKE shares about his professional journey, and how he uses his credentials and experiences to embrace who he is and encourage others.Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

George M. Johnson is an American Emmy-nominated, award-winning, New York Times bestselling author, journalist, and activist known for 2021’s We Are Not Broken and 2020’s bestselling memoir manifesto All Boys Aren’t Blue. Their new book is titled, Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I'd Known.Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The bimonthly On The Panel series is back with the topic, “Black Queer Citizens in the Workplace”. Thank you to Episode 8’s Prince Beasley (United States), Episode 28’s Edward D. Lathan IV (United States), and Episode 50’s Kaecy (South Africa) for sharing their insights on what being an out Black queer citizen in the workplace means to them.Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mike Henderson is the American founder and CEO of B.A.G. Travel, “a premier group travel consulting firm specialising in crafting immersive and transformative travel experiences.” In 2022, it was selected by New World Report 2022 Awards as Best Emerging Travel Agency - California. With over 20 years of expertise in the travel industry, and a background in urban planning, Mike is dedicated to helping travellers explore the world in meaningful ways. Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Steven Kabuye is a Canadian-based Ugandan LGBTQ+ activist. Thank you to Episode 61’s Russell Brooks for connecting us. Steven is the Executive Director of Coloured Voices Media Foundation, a youth-led organisation advocating for and promoting the human rights, health, and socioeconomic well-being of LGBTQ+ citizens. He's also the recipient of the 2024 Troy Perry Medal of Pride, an award honouring “fearless LGBTQ+ young people & community leaders who are making an impact through social & spiritual activism.”Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Paul Jerome is a Haitian-American actor, writer, director, and producer, whose career spans theatre, television, and film. As an actor, his credits include roles in ABC's Sister, Sister, The Drew Carey Show, and Spin City. He's also been on FOX's 9-1-1 and Boston Public, BET's Twenties, and The DL Chronicles. The gay-themed LOGO series created by filmmakers Quincy LeNear and Deondray Gossfield. As a writer and producer, Paul has worked on shows like The Big Dick Mike Show and B-Boy Bear. One of his more recent projects includes the film, Maxie.Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Zarah Hilliard is an American surrogate for SurrogateFirst, a team made up of surrogates and potential parents in ten U.S. states and Asia. Their mission is to make “…the surrogacy journey as smooth, safe and stress-free as possible for everyone involved.” Since she was young, Zarah has searched for ways to positively impact others. She is enrolled at Pikes Peak State College in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to become a labour and delivery nurse. Zarah has been on one surrogacy journey and is preparing for a second one. She’s someone committed to blessing others with the miracle of joy and life.Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Maurice Franklin is a Public Policy and Public Administration Adjunct Professor California State University, Northridge, and CEO and President of Franklin Management Consulting, lecturing and consulting on organisational sustainability and organisational development strategies throughout the United States. His career includes senior management roles within legacy African American non-profit organisations like Manhattan’s Community Board 10, the Second Vice-President of the Harlem Hospital Community Advisory Board, a Board member of the Prince Hall Medical Foundation, and the Chair of Health and Wellness for the founding Chapter of One Hundred Black Men in Harlem. He’s also a community advisor to the City University of New York, Graduate Center's Harlem Strong Community Mental Health Project. Dr. Franklin attributes his activism and social justice commitments to the influences of his mother, James Baldwin, Reverend Jessie Jackson, and Marcus Garvey.Rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, and YouTube. For more information, go to ourblackgaydiasporapodcast.com. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.